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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill and Melinda Gates Unveil Big Plan for the Environment
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-and-melinda-gates-unveil-big-plan-for-the-environment?ref=homeMolly C. Enking at the Daily Beast
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In their annual letter, Gates and his wife Melinda hone in on what he says are the five grand challenges to combating climate change and global warming: agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation. Bill Gates wrote that Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the $1 billion fund hes a partner in, will be using the five challenges as a guide for all future investments they make, which will focus on where emissions come from.
Its important that people know that electricity, its only a quarter of the emissions, Gates said in a promo video for the letter. Things like cement, steel, meattheres a lot of other activities that are generating 75 percent of it.
Solar panels are great, but we should be hearing about trucks, cement, and cow farts too, he wrote.
Gates isnt the first to hone in on new solutions for the climate crisis that go beyond solar panels and wind turbines. In Paul Hawkens 2017 book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, number one suggestion for eliminating 85 percent of emissions was Refrigerator management. And the Special Report on Global Warmingby the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released just this year calls for deep reductions in methane emissionslike the aforementioned cow farts.
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Bill and Melinda Gates Unveil Big Plan for the Environment (Original Post)
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Feb 2019
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Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)1. Fix "Edge" first!!!
I kid, I kid. Thank you, the Gates Family.
sheshe2
(83,319 posts)2. Kick. Recommend.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)3. Gates shows what billionaires should do! nt
Greybnk48
(10,147 posts)4. This is exciting news!
I look forward to hearing more about it!
oasis
(49,150 posts)5. Kick and rec for "Five Challenges"